The Chief, Enforcement Bureau, acting pursuant to delegated authority,
today issued Notices of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (``NALs'') to
22 carriers for failing to file mandatory reports as to their actual
and forecast number usage. The fines issued pursuant to these NALs are
for amounts ranging between $6,000 and $12,000 based on the numbering
resources assigned to each carrier.

Section 52.15(f) of the Commission's rules requires U.S. carriers
receiving numbering resources from the North American Numbering Plan
Administrator (``NANPA''), a Pooling Administrator, or another
telecommunications carrier, to file NRUF reports semi-annually. The
reporting requirements were adopted to facilitate the monitoring of
numbering resource usage and to promote more efficient use of numbering
resources and forestall premature exhaustion of numbering resources.

Each of the 22 carriers failed to file the NRUF report due September
15, 2000. In addition, each of these carriers failed to respond to the
Bureau's inquiry concerning its failure to file the mandatory report.
The carriers involved and the amount of proposed forfeitures are as
follows: